Comprehensive systematic review of healthcare workers' perceptions of risk and use of coping strategies towards emerging respiratory infectious diseases

International Journal of Evidence-Based Healthcare

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 403-419

  Koh, Yiwen ^a   Hegney, Desley Gail ^b   Drury, Vicki ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Emerging respiratory infectious diseases; Health care workers; Risk perceptions; Risk coping strategies.

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; FEAR; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL STRESS; PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; REVIEW; RISK; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; DISEASE OUTBREAKS; FEAR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HUMANS; PROFESSIONAL-PATIENT RELATIONS; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTIONS; RISK; SEVERE ACUTE RESPIRATORY SYNDROME; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84858770433     PISSN: 17441595     EISSN: 17441609     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-1609.2011.00242.x     Document Type: Review

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